caffeine diary

Oh, flist (dwircle), it's the weekend! \o/

Other excellent things:

1. I came home* to two unexpected messages from people I love. :)

*apparently by this I mean "to the internet". ?

2. I got gas for the car just after the indicator light went on.

3. I bought a new bookcase and 4 frozen pizzas.

4. One of the nice lads playing American football in my apartment complex's parking lot carried bookcase from my car to the house because I asked for help :) *most outgoing*

5. I am up to The B♗shop at the Lake in my non-thorough Blackie Ryan reread. It's a British country home mystery! With Blackie! I'm pretty excited about it.

6. I bought Snuff last night. I'm looking forward to it.

7. Baaaaaby planet. (Okay, I just wanted to say that since I heard it on NPR.)

MY YULETIDE ASSIGNMENT IS SO AWESOME HEE YAY WIN. <3<3<3<3<3!

(And my original assignment was REALLY NEAT too and I'm kind of tempted to write that one too! You know. In all my spare time.)

Dear Yuletide writer,

I know what you are thinking. You are thinking, "What kind of sick freak is my recipient, anyhow? Who requests Baby-Sitters Club het?" (Yes, I am sure that is the squickiest thing I requested. Yep.)

Okay. So. I'm Ari, and I'm a polyfictional Christian lesbian who's a fan of cross-gen and has Interests Not Suitable For LiveJournal. I'm a gigantic dork. I love fiction of all kinds. I'm a theology student. I'm a femslasher but didn't request any femslash this Yuletide. I bring my own subtext. I'd love it if you brought yours too. I love these source texts like squishy things and hope you do too. Thank you so much for volunteering to write, and I hope you have a blast reviewing some source material and writing something that you enjoy. Except for the one restriction noted in my sign-up -- no NC-17 Anne of Green Gables fic -- everything goes, including: kink, incest, boyslash, girlslash, het, three or moresomes, character death, background pairings I didn't request, [ETA] genderbending, genderplay, genderfrell, or any variation thereon[/eta] -- you shouldn't write these things if they don't appeal to you, but if that is the way the story moves you, feel free.

Mostly, I would love a story that in some way demonstrates love for the source -- I have great big litcrushes on Ann M. Martin and Father Greeley and Lucy Maud because they've written these universes that I adore, that I can dive into again and again and feel like coming home, because they've created these characters who I love like family, who were part of my growing up, who were my solace and my escape from the real world. The sourcetexts aren't perfect and it's fine to acknowledge that -- it's hard not to write BSC pastiche that isn't a little bit of a gentle parody, I think, and goodness knows Greeley has some skanky race and gender issues -- but really, I love these sources. I love the worlds, the characters, and I think the sense of innocence of all the series. (Yes. This is why I asked for slash and incest. I don't really get me, either.) I would love fic written in-the-style-of, and I'd love fic written in a completely different style so long as something in the writing remains true to the spirit of the texts, the important themes, the characters at their depths. I know that's hard to define, and don't worry about trying to figure out what I think is the spirit of the books. I'd rather you figure out what you love about the source and celebrate that in your fic.

[more specific tl;dr behind the cut]

( YULETIDE )

All right, so I read this book, The Cardinal Sins, right? And I spent the entire book slashing Kevin/Pat. ( how Ari managed to totally miss the point and still didn't get to see the boys screw )

I'm trying to decide whether to dive into my brand-new H/W slash or save it for later and re-read more unintentionally slashy Andrew Greeley goodness.

And GIP! I mentioned Bibleslash, so I feel that it's time to show off the brand-new shiny David/Jonathan icon wistful_fever made for me.

Today I spent far too much time reading f_w and far little time working my stargate_santa project. I also discovered that the CD had, indeed, decided to be a bastard, so my gift will consist entirely of fic (it seems very likely). And not very good fic, at that.

Still no clue what to do about my happy Christmas fic. Given the number of fanda I have and the number of pairings I support, you'd think I could write one happy fic, but apparently not.

Will read The Cardinal Sins by Andrew Greeley. In all probability, will slash it. *pokes Blackie/Sean plot bunny that will not die but will not be written, either.*

Apparently, I'm spending Christmas Eve here. Dad and the brat will be here. I'll live.

Oh! Oh! OH! We bought tickets for spring break!!! Had a battle with my conscience over whether seven extra hours was worth hassling PEG for a ride at around midnight. Alas, my better self appears to have won out; my flight is at noon and gets in at four.

(Actually, the whole thing seems to have been a fight between my better and worse halves. The worse half is the one saying "return flight? What return flight? You don't need a frelling return flight!")

Christmas is soon! It crept up on me; I was so busy freaking out about final exams.

Right, so must go back to writing fic and trying not inadvertantly kill characters. 'Cause that would be bad.